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USING STORYTELLING TO MOTIVATE PROGRAMMING.

The article discusses the use of storytelling to motivate the study of computer programming. The authors examine the inclusion of the Storytelling Alice programming environment, which allows users to create computer-animated movies, as a motivational tool for middle school girls. Programs like Story...

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Published in:Communications of the ACM Vol. 50; no. 7; pp. 58 - 65
Main Authors: Kelleher, Caitlin, Pausch, Randy
Format: Article
Published: Association for Computing Machinery Jul2007
Subjects:
Computer science
Students
Computer programming
Computer training
Programming languages
Elementary schools
United States
Online Access:View this record in EBSCOhost
Summary:The article discusses the use of storytelling to motivate the study of computer programming. The authors examine the inclusion of the Storytelling Alice programming environment, which allows users to create computer-animated movies, as a motivational tool for middle school girls. Programs like Storytelling Alice are especially important in the 2000s, as student interest in computer science is falling in the United States, largely because students believe that the subject is boring from as early as grade school.